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I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.
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There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.
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It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
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I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.
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I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around.
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.
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A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.
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We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
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The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
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I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?
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Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
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See who else is interested and join other people's projects that have already started that you like. You don't always have to reinvent the wheel and start your own thing.
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Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.
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The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."
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If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.
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I'm not that interested in female superheroes.
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I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around "I'm With Her".
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I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
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In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.
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Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
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I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.
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I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
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If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.
